Poeas

A son of Phylacus or Thaumacus, and husband of Methone, by whom he became the father of Philoctetes.1 He is mentioned among the Argonauts,2 and is said to have killed with an arrow, Talos, in Crete.3

At the request of Heracles, Poeas kindled the pile on which the hero burnt himself, and was rewarded with the arrows of Heracles.4

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References

Notes

  1. Homer. Odyssey iii, 190; Eustathius on Homer, p. 323.
  2. Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library i, 9.16; comp. Pindar. Pythian Odes i, 53.
  3. Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library i, 9.26.
  4. ibid. ii, 7.7.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.